Bob Coecke

Chief Scientist, Head of Quantum-Compositional Intelligence at Quantinuum

In addition to his post as Chief Scientist, Professor Coecke leads Quantinuum’s Oxford-based Quantum-Compositional Intelligence research team. The team’s research efforts include work in Quantum Computational Linguistics (QCL) and its practical implementation, Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP), as well as the development of diagrammatic quantum theory. Bob is also Emeritus Professor at Wolfson College, Oxford University, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Computer Science and Mathematics Departments, where he teaches a course on QCL. Professor Coecke is a founding member of the Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) and Applied Category Theory (ACT) communities, the diamond-open-access journal, Compositionality, and the Cambridge University Press, Applied Category Theory book series.

Timeline

  • Chief Scientist, Head of Quantum-Compositional Intelligence

    Current role

  • Chief Scientific Officer